November 24, 2026

Events of the day

• Great-martyr Menas; St Theodore the Studite; Blessed Maximus the Fool-for-Christ of Moscow

  Polyeleos rank

Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

Readings of the day

• Epistle

  1 Timothy 1:8–14

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  ⁸But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

  ⁹as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  ¹⁰for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

  ¹¹according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

  ¹²I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

  ¹³although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  ¹⁴The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

• Gospel

  Luke 12:42–48

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  ⁴²The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

  ⁴³Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

  ⁴⁴Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.

  ⁴⁵But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

  ⁴⁶then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

  ⁴⁷That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

  ⁴⁸but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer